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Re: ping of death attacks



On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:39:41PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:13:07PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote:
> > Maybe he means ping floods?  Pings of death usually will crash a 
> > box after a few packets hit it.  As you said Debian is good about 
> > those kinds of things.
> 
> Are these things just malformed packets / frames sent to some machine 
> or what?
> I think versions of WinDos are vulnerable.

http://www.insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html

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